Twitter has officially confirmed that it is exploring the idea of a paid subscription model, and now the company has begun surveying users about possible features that could be added as part of a possible paid service, through reporter Andrew Roth on Twitter.
Roth’s thread shows a variety of features Twitter is apparently considering as part of a paid tier, including the option to quickly undo tweets immediately after they’ve been sent, and the ability to post longer, higher resolution videos. Respondents are asked to select the most important and least suggested ideas.
After CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed that Twitter is exploring a subscription model, the company is surveying users about what kind of features they would like to see in the service.
Undo shipping, special badges for profiling and advanced analysis are among the considered features. pic.twitter.com/hL6T8sdI0s
– Andrew Roth + (@RothsReviews) July 31, 2020
The full list of possible features includes:
- A “undo send” window that would allow you to retrieve a tweet in 30 seconds, which sounds similar to Gmail’s “undo” button. It is the closest thing to offering an edit button that Twitter has already talked about.
- Custom colors for the Twitter app and website
- The ability to post longer, higher resolution videos
- More advanced analytics
- Customized profile badges (one example is that journalists might have badges indicating which publication they work for)
- Canned responses to select for faster responses
- Job recruiting features (to post jobs and connect with potential recruits)
- Custom stickers and hashtags
- Information about other accounts (which could show all your previous interactions with a user)
- “User roles”, which would make it easier for large organizations to grant access to company accounts without having to share passwords directly
- Less or no advertisement
Twitter also seems concerned about whether users would react badly to a paid tier that would block some features, with a portion of the survey dedicated to asking whether users are concerned that it would harm Twitter’s position as an open platform or tilted conversations in favor of users. paid.
Rumors about the Twitter subscription platform were first opened via a job posting for a new team at the company called “Gryphon,” which was said to be “building a subscription platform” for the company. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey would go on to confirm that the company is in the “very, very early stages of exploring” new monetization options for the site, but softened that announcement by noting that the company has “a very high bar. by when would I ask consumers to pay for aspects of Twitter. ”
